pics of my peppers

Thanks Dono. Maybe you could grow jalapeno instead.I have small fences that the puppy can fit through. He ran off with a volunteer tomato plant, a few branches of tomatoes the pepper and ruined some flowers.I put up some chicken wire and more fencing. He can't get through that.

I did the same thing. Most of the lower leaves are laying on the ground. There are a few tiny peppers on the plant still though. I guess I will have to wait and see!I am with you on the temps! It's been hot! I think I would be better off if my body was used to this heat! My watermelon loves it though!

If it's only lower leaves I wouldn't worry about it. Mine have some yellow leaves at the bottom of the plants.It has been way too hot. The plants are hanging down when I go out there every day.First the plants got flooded with rain every day and now they're being roasted. They are tough.

My spring (cool weather) bell peppers got larger than the store bought peppers. I just picked them when they were large. The peppers which set on the summer blooms only seem to grow half as large. If you leave them on, they will start turning red and you will know they are ripe and will not grow larger. Remember that the green bell pepper is an unripe red bell pepper. They are actually a little sweeter when they turn red.

It was really sad to watch the summer heat get to my pepper plants and many nice peppers were lost to sun scald because I was waiting for them to get larger.

tedln wrote:It was really sad to watch the summer heat get to my pepper plants and many nice peppers were lost to sun scald because I was waiting for them to get larger.

Ted

kgall, I'd be over the moon with three peppers! Yours like nice even though you say they are sad.

I've had exactly one pepper produce and it got eaten by some bug one night two months ago. Now the plant is probably 4' tall and I'm finally getting a few new flowers on the very top. Hopefully I'll get something from it after all the babying I've done to the thing.

At least my jalapeno is finally producing. It was in the same boat as the bell.